{"product_id":"nightwatchman-s-occurrence-book-book-v-s-naipaul-9780375708336","title":"The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Nobel Prize-winning author comes two novels and a collection of stories that capture the rhythms of life in the Caribbean and England with impressive subtlety and humor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The world's writer, a master of language and perception.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Suffrage of Elvira\u003c\/i\u003e is Naipaul's hilarious take on an electoral campaign in the back country of Trinidad, where the candidates' tactics include blatant vote-buying and supernatural sabotage. The eponymous protagonist of \u003ci\u003eMr. Stone and the Knights Companion\u003c\/i\u003e is an aging Englishman of ponderously regular habits whose life is thrown into upheaval by a sudden marriage and unanticipated professional advancement. And the stories in \u003ci\u003eA Flag on the Island\u003c\/i\u003e take us from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad--whose black proprietor faces bankruptcy until he takes a Chinese name--to a rooming house in London--where the genteel landlady plays a nasty Darwinian game with her budgerigars. Unfailingly stylish, filled with intelligence and feeling, here is the work of a writer who can do just about anything that can be done with language.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49584548905233,"sku":"GOR005250818","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50350959034641,"sku":"CIN0375708332G","price":6.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415736615185,"sku":"CIN0375708332VG","price":3.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52416189989137,"sku":"GOR003439890","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0375708332.jpg?v=1751006743","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/nightwatchman-s-occurrence-book-book-v-s-naipaul-9780375708336","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}